Definitions for buckers

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buckers buck·er

Spelling: [buhk-er]

IPA: /ˈbʌk ər/

Buckers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in buckers (bcekrsu).

Definitions for buckers

noun

1. a horse that bucks.
2. a person who bucks rivets.
3. a person employed to carry, shovel, lift, or load coal, farm produce, etc.
4. (in lumbering) a person who saws felled trees into shorter, more easily hauled lengths.
5. the male of the deer, antelope, rabbit, hare, sheep, or goat.
6. the male of certain other animals, as the shad.
7. an impetuous, dashing, or spirited man or youth.
8. Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to an American Indian male or a black male.
9. buckskin.
10. bucks, casual oxford shoes made of buckskin, often in white or a neutral color.

adjective

1. Military. of the lowest of several ranks involving the same principal designation, hence subject to promotion within the rank:

Origin of buckers

An Americanism dating back to 1880-85; buck² + -er¹

Examples for buckers

As a matter of fact, he became detached rather early in the game, having been accidentally given a bucker.

A bucker is a bent piece of wood by which slaughtered sheep are hung up by their expanded hind legs, before being cut out.

The last exhibitor was old Anchorite, a faithful performer in harness for sixteen years, but a twenty-year-old bucker.

One of the ponies was a bucker, and threw his rider over his head into a mesquite-bush.

He took with him four horses and thus quaintly describes a new cure for a hopeless "bucker."

The workmen seated before it, break the pieces of mixed ore, called bowse in Derbyshire, with the bucker.

The saddle was double-cinched, and when Orlick tightened the flank girth the animal revolved, kicking in a circle like a bucker.

I'm open to bet there isn't a bucker in Australia can get rid of him in a quarter of an hour.

The genuine article, the real Western bucker, is quite another matter.

He was bound to go that way sooner or later, but you're not going to ride a bucker, and you're not a gunfighter.